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lynatiSo, once again here I am indulging in my favorite pasttime:
Staying up insanely late working on character-related spreassheets or timelines.
...In this case, both.
I'd had a problem- how does one handle making a single chronological history of events when you got multiple universes with different histories breifely occupying the same timeline at different points, when the worlds are only temporarily synced for their durations?
The anwser is: one does not, unless one wishes their readership's heads to explode for real.
The next best thing: being able to click a link in each section to take you to the proper place, so that you can read individual universes from start to finish without having to repeat the listing of events.
for example:
you have universes A, B, and C. they are separate universes. and you have a connected set of events- 1,2,3,4, and 5. These events occur in order, but happen to switch locations.
A_______B_________C
1_______._________.
._______2_________.
._______._________3
._______4_________.
5_______._________.
You can read "A" straight down, which would go "1, dot , dot , dot, 5" (with each "dot" representing an event that only happened within universe A, and did not directly impact events in other universes) or you can read through following events 1-5...
Or any variation thereof. Step from one dimension to another and take a moment to catch up in that universe's past, and maybe sneak a look at its future as well.
Of course, the fact that I'm going to have to likely break up the individual dimensions themselves into separate pages isn't going to make things easier, but Sepiro alone has over 100 "current" years of history...It's get huge just mentioning what happened year to year, and I'm doing a day-to-day rundown of events when it reaches each story arc.
hee. I wish I didn't have to sleep. I've covered pretty much all the concrete events (ie, births) set before Sepiron year 1 agz, and a handful inside of that year. And it only took six hours. ^_^
Okay, I'm going to take "Mad World" off of repeat now and catch some sleep.
Staying up insanely late working on character-related spreassheets or timelines.
...In this case, both.
I'd had a problem- how does one handle making a single chronological history of events when you got multiple universes with different histories breifely occupying the same timeline at different points, when the worlds are only temporarily synced for their durations?
The anwser is: one does not, unless one wishes their readership's heads to explode for real.
The next best thing: being able to click a link in each section to take you to the proper place, so that you can read individual universes from start to finish without having to repeat the listing of events.
for example:
you have universes A, B, and C. they are separate universes. and you have a connected set of events- 1,2,3,4, and 5. These events occur in order, but happen to switch locations.
A_______B_________C
1_______._________.
._______2_________.
._______._________3
._______4_________.
5_______._________.
You can read "A" straight down, which would go "1, dot , dot , dot, 5" (with each "dot" representing an event that only happened within universe A, and did not directly impact events in other universes) or you can read through following events 1-5...
Or any variation thereof. Step from one dimension to another and take a moment to catch up in that universe's past, and maybe sneak a look at its future as well.
Of course, the fact that I'm going to have to likely break up the individual dimensions themselves into separate pages isn't going to make things easier, but Sepiro alone has over 100 "current" years of history...It's get huge just mentioning what happened year to year, and I'm doing a day-to-day rundown of events when it reaches each story arc.
hee. I wish I didn't have to sleep. I've covered pretty much all the concrete events (ie, births) set before Sepiron year 1 agz, and a handful inside of that year. And it only took six hours. ^_^
Okay, I'm going to take "Mad World" off of repeat now and catch some sleep.
